2018 ANNUAL REPORT

November 2018

CONTENTS PRESIDENT’S REPORT WILL LILEY

CAPTAIN’S REPORT ED DAY

DIRECTOR OF ROWING’S REPORT MATT UNGEMACH

TREASURER’S REPORT MARK CONNAGHAN

ATHLETE INSIGHTS BLACK & MURPHY

FLEET REPORT

MEMBERSHIP LISTING

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS

We are immensely proud of Rob Black, who won a silver medal in the men’s eight at the 2018 World Championships in Plovdiv Bulgaria, after three successive U23 medals – he is now back at the NTC in Canberra, aiming for selection for Tokyo 2020. Sean Murphy is back at Mosman after his bronze medal-performance in the LW single at the U23 World Championships, finishing his physiotherapy degree while he too trains for selection in what will be the last Olympic lightweight rowing events. If there is such a thing as a “good” bronze medal, it was Sean’s: he was the last athlete picked in the entire U23 team; he was lengths off the pace when he began and realistically, could have hoped for a mere A Final berth, yet he and coach Matt Ungemach worked and worked and worked – on his fitness; his strength and flexibility (with invaluable input from strength and conditioning coach Ryan Barraclough, whose costs are shared with St. Augustine’s College); and his technique – and he improved an amazing 11 seconds to not only make the A Final but make the podium, the only U23 team medal.

These fine young men exemplify the best of our Club, and I know you will support them in their quest over the next 22 months. You can contribute towards their living and training costs by going onto the Australian Sports Foundation website and making a tax-deductible donation, however small: www.asf.gov.au and click through to Individual Athletes.

I’ll repeat what I said in 2016 and last year: We want a structure that generates results, but with transparency and accountability, for the athletes and coaches, within the Club culture. We want a high performance program of steady, methodical scrutiny of what’s best and what’s working (or not), and an unflinching constant self-examination. I think when you read Matt’s report you will agree that the Club is making great progress, though we recognise we still have a lot to do (especially in building our women’s HP program).

Finally, with respect to the High Performance program, I’d like to mention our coaches. Mosman Rowing Club has three part-time coaches: Matt Ungemach; Judith Ungemach; and Linda Read. All are Level Three accredited coaches. All other Sydney Development Clubs have three or more full-time (or full-time equivalent) coaches. Our coaches do an amazing job to produce the results they do.

When we were informed of the NTC set-up and that we would now be a development club, we accepted the change and asked ourselves how we could become most effective. We decided on several new moves:

• Linda would accept beginner Junior rowers as young as 14, but only as scullers (so they learn correct ergonomic movement without the spine twisting inherent in sweep rowing). Historically, Mosman has allowed junior rowers only once they are 16, but this new set-up is the model common in Europe;

• We would build squads, starting with Year ten crews, then U19, U21 and finally U23. If we didn’t have the numbers for eights, we would boat fours and quads; if we didn’t have a four, we would boat pairs and doubles, but we would have crews;

• We would embrace a feeder school system, starting with St. Augustine’s College but it is also our hope and aim to have an explicit feeder agreement with all of our other schools tenants, as well as recruiting from any other school;

• We would embrace careful strength & conditioning coaching.

Each one of these initiatives is bearing fruit. Linda is passing on several promising younger male and female rowers to Judith and Matt. Judith won the National Year Ten Schoolboys eights title with St. Augustine’s, the first time Shore School has been beaten in this event for 17 years (jaws dropped in the grandstand in shock) – all these boys are Mosman members. Matt has reported on the Nationals results of our older Development squads. And Ryan Barraclough has made an enormous impact on all these athletes with his careful programs of individually tailored strength and flexibility training.

MOSMAN ROWING CLUB ANNUAL REPORT 2018

PRESIDENT’S REPORT - Captain Ed Day is reporting on the Club’s internal affairs, including our Masters and recreational rowing activities. Director of Rowing Matt Ungemach is reporting on the High Performance squads and on the HP program generally. My comments are limited to reporting on the Club’s external links and on our strategic ambition.

EXTERNAL RELATIONS

We have important relationships across the rowing community and beyond. Many of these are beyond Members’ consciousness, but they need nurturing and constant attention: Mosman Council; our State and Federal Members (Felicity Wilson and Tony Abbott – both of them have helped the Club over the past year – see below); Rowing Australia; Rowing NSW; the NSW Institute of Sport; our tenant schools; NSW Maritime; NSW Harbour and Foreshore Committee (governing waterway use).

I myself accept the obligation to nurture most of these, though I know Matt Ungemach does a lot of work throughout the year, managing the obligations of Mosman Rowing Club as a designated High Performance Centre and liaising with RNSW, NSWIS, Rowing Australia and the other high performance clubs.

HIGH PERFORMANCE

The National Training Centres for Senior A athletes are now approaching two years in operation. Mosman, like all other clubs across Australia, is now a Development Club charged by Rowing Australia with pathways development of Junior, Under 21 and Under 23 elite athletes. We receive financial assistance for coaching from Rowing Australia via the NSW Institute of Sport based on rigorous performance criteria. Mosman continued to receive the maximum performance bonus this year, though this can’t be taken for granted (see below).

Our aim remains the same: to maintain a sustainable, squad-based development system for young rowers where we find them; teach them; train them; race them; and if they are good enough, we support them into State and National crews and eventually, farewell them into the NTCs (though we always welcome them back).

PRESIDENT’S REPORT _CONT’D

Many other clubs have formally embraced feeder schools; Melbourne Uni have even hired a Junior development officer to go after 14-15 year olds from non-rowing schools. We are always alert to what the competition is doing but sometimes, we lead the pack!

Matt asked in January 2017, following the NTC announcement, that we give him and the coaching team two years to build solid U19 squads. We are constantly reviewing what the coaches are achieving during the season. We do not pressure people to come to row at Mosman. I remember in 1975 when I expressed interest in staying in Sydney following the World Championships and rowing for Mosman, that Bruce Evans said, “You’re welcome to come down and try out.” I loved that response: it captured perfectly the culture then…and now. Everyone is welcome to join the High Performance program, and “try out”.

A final note on coaches: I cannot finish without paying tribute to Steve (Rocky) Gordon. Rocky volunteered his coaching, not only of Junior crews but also to all of our Masters crews, selflessly giving of his time and expertise at 5:15 a.m. to try to improve rowers young and old. I’m not sure his wisdom was heeded as much as it deserved to be, but thank you Rocky, a Mosman Life Member and great Club man.

MOSMAN ROWING CLUB FOUNDATION

The Foundation is now established, with a Board of Directors and an Investment Committee and all assets held by the Club on trust until its establishment have now been transferred. The residual wash-up of that trusteeship show in this year’s accounts as a massive loss, as the Club moved the monies out of its own accounts. They of course do not affect the Club’s normalised year-on-year operations.

THE CHALLENGES

Five years ago, I set myself as President three main goals:

• To make the Club financially sustainable;

• To finance the rebuilding of the old 1967 boatshed, and see its redevelopment completed; and

• To imbue a culture of respect and support between all Members.

They are all still a work-in-progress.

FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY

Despite vigorous action by the Committee last financial year and this, the Club is merely treading water. We are solvent. The structural problem is that we are not generating sufficient income to establish a sinking fund reserve to maintain all our assets, including boats. In effect, we are slowly eroding our capital base.

The new Committee will be asked to address this issue as a matter of urgency, and we are open to any ideas. Fund-raising events, such as to buy specific equipment, are by definition one-off events – we need sustainable solutions.

FUND-RAISING

I myself have worked at fund-raising for the Club for over twelve years; it’s an ongoing, and frustrating, exercise. This year, the NSW Government invited grant applications under a number of separate programs especially to rebuild the 1967 boatshed.

We received the bitterly disappointing news that we were not successful in our $3 million grant application. The Greater Sydney Sports Facility Fund received 165 applications for over $279 million. $33 million is available every year for three years; this was the first year applications were called. 18 projects were approved; $500,000 was the smallest and $5 million was the largest.

The GSSF assessment panel considers three criteria: strategic alignment; affordability; and deliverability. I thought we had a strong case on all three. We will now seek feedback on where we fell short before any decision to try again, but I am assured it was not because of our postcode (rich suburb) or sport (rowing = silvertails). It may be that we could never qualify simply because we cannot promise sufficient increase in participation numbers compared to, say, Manly SLSC.

If we conclude we will never meet the government’s selection criteria, we will have to try to raise the funds privately, a much harder task. Already, in the 12 years I have been working at this, the renovation cost estimate has increased from $2.8 million to $4 million. It will be $4.5 million by the time we could complete a funding campaign.

On a more positive note, we applied for two grants under separate Federal government schemes, and thanks to Guy Morgan’s stewardship, we have received a $20,000 grant for upgrading the kitchen and changing rooms in the old shed. Thanks, Guy!

We also were successful in our $19,900 grant application to put a new, removeable rubber floor in the weights area of the gym. This was helped by the lobbying by our local NSW Member, Felicity Wilson.

CULTURE

Same old mantra: the Golden Rule applies as always – treat others as you would wish them to treat you.

More than that though, I think we can make more effort – and bring more organisation – to welcoming new Members, especially novice and learn-to-row members. We have had several excellent suggestions on this and other management possibilities and we will formally solicit more of them in the New Year.

Finally, I want to thank the outgoing Committee for all its selfless service over the past year. There were some hard decisions faced and everyone stepped up – the Club is stronger for your contributions.

NEW COMMITTEE

We aim to renew the incoming Committee and to pass on governance of the Club to the next, younger generation. The new Committee will face challenges on many fronts, some new and some ongoing, and I am confident it will meet them with the best interests of Mosman Rowing Club always foremost.

I myself will stand aside at the Annual General Meeting and Guy Morgan will nominate to become President, so the Club will be in good hands. I will ask the Committee to be appointed as “chief fundraiser” and will continue to devote my efforts to get the boatshed redeveloped, however long it takes.

I wish you all a successful rowing season, and a safe time on and off the water.

Will Liley

MOSMAN ROWING CLUB ANNUAL REPORT 2018

THE SEASON PAST HAD MANY HIGHS AND BUT ALSO SOME DISAPPOINTMENTS.

Rob Black’s and Sean Murphy’s world championship medals were magnificent achievements indeed and are recounted in appropriate detail elsewhere in this annual report. Let’s not forget too Tom Schramko’s win in the U23 men’s single at the Nationals, whilst recovering from illness. These three young men are fine people who love their club, greatly appreciate the support it gives them and look, in turn, to contribute back. Last season we named a boat after Tom and a couple of months ago we named after Rob the very boat in which he won gold in the coxless four at the U23 World Championships in 2017.

During the year various improvements were made to the facilities including the gym (additional ergs, floor refurbishment and increased space), boat bays (lifters and lights) and the pontoons (rubber matting and tinny rollers). We also purchased a number of new and second-hand boats including two new medium-weight Wintechs for the C fleet, the Sarah Hill 4 and the Liz Burrows 2.

On the social side 120 members and friends attended an excellent club dinner at Skiffies in June. This event was conceived and organised by Linda Mudronja who was ably assisted by Helenka Baculakova, Paula Murphy and Cathy Starling. This should be an annual and much looked forward to event where all the club’s generations and squads celebrate the club and each other’s company. Linda also arranged over summer a number of Friday twilight rows which, though not large gatherings, were thoroughly enjoyed by all participants. The first twilight row for this summer was held in November.

Our Learn to Row program was expertly run by Robert Szewczak providing not just great tuition and fun but valuable income for the club, all with little need for any input from me or other committee members. Our recreational membership is growing with people graduating from Learn to Row and some recreational members have moved to full membership having further developed their skills and fitness.

Many masters members trained with great dedication and competed at many regattas but, sadly, North Shore pipped us in the NSW masters season point score which is definitely a trophy to aim for in 2019. Some knowledgeable observers commented after the Masters Nationals at Lake Barrington that other strong masters clubs seem now to have an edge over us. Perhaps it is time for each of us to review our approach to training and racing. Regardless there can be no doubt that proper planning is essential. Rob Drury demonstrated this when he oversaw a very specific and ultimately successful campaign for Mosman to win the National Men’s Masters Club Eight.

As I write three masters crews will soon race the Head of the Yarra following lengthy, well-structured training programs.

Now for a few negatives. I failed to make much progress on my suggestions in last year’s annual report that we develop new revenue streams and adjust the club’s administration arrangements. The committee was confronted with some regrettable events which it chose to deal with pragmatically. These caused significant distraction and consumed much time and energy that would otherwise have been applied to the benefit of the club as a whole.

The upper storey of the old clubhouse still needs considerable work as, for another year, we deferred some small projects in the hope that a complete refurbishment or even a new building might be possible in the near-term.

Notwithstanding the social activities mentioned above the club is not as cohesive as it might be. Too often, in my view, there are instances of people assuming the worst in others or impugning their motives or simply being aloof rather than friendly. I can’t help but contrast this with the unceasing enthusiasm and friendliness of our newer members such as Petra van Woensel, Alex van Helden, Miguel Araujo, Pedro Brandão Teixeira, Xiaofeng Gu, Lawrie Nethery, Luke Murphy, Kohar Sakaian, Wendy Miller, Linda Mudronja, Helenka Baculakova, Sarah Quinn, Dieuwke Winter, Tina Leonard and Stephanie Powling plus many others too numerous to name individually. Perhaps it is simply human nature to lose sight of an environment’s charms the longer you are part of it and look instead for negatives. Pearl Bay should be a place of joy and fun and any discontent should be rare and short-lived.

In closing I would like to thank most sincerely the following people without whom the club would have simply not functioned. Your hardworking committee and in particular to our president, Will Liley, who is stepping down after four years of very hard work. His support of the club over many years has been quite remarkable. Long may it continue.. Our coaches Matthias and Judith Ungemach, Linda Read and Steve “Rocky” Gordon. Our bookkeeper, Ciáran Glynn, and Aidan Smith who has done excellent work on the boats and around the shed. The member volunteers not already mentioned above including in particular Sally Maspero (membership and administration), Jane Tribe (web, marketing & design), Anne Taylor (regatta entries and Feral Fund), Tiffany Hutcheson (cleaning), Luke Murphy (handyman) and Jim Aroney (electrical, handyman and towing).

Ed Day

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Back from left: James Taylor, Phil Titterton, Steve Gordon (Coach), ‘Dasher’ May, Robert Drury, John Struik, John Hardy, Claire Jansen (Cox) Front: Mark Connaghan (L) and Will Liley.

CAPTAIN’S REPORT

DIRECTOR OF ROWING REPORT - 2018

2017/2018 was a year of growth for the Mosman Rowing Club squads, from a development and high-performance perspective. The focus has been to find new talent, coach and develop them to the best of their ability.

Different pathways are available for young rowers and we cater for many. Some might enjoy Club level rowing, others target a scholarship at US Universities or aim to represent NSW and/or Australia.

At the same time we are a recognised High Performance Centre within Rowing Australia’s National Pathways Program, for which we receive significant funding based on set KPIs. The requirements for athletes, coaches to ensure a suitable training environment are challenging within a hybrid recreational/HP Club.

The Pathway environment and increased pressure on all Clubs in Sydney, sees us competing for the same talent pool of school leavers, which we have addressed with a couple of new and modified initiatives to leverage Mosman’s geographic advantage.

Our following representative athletes are pure Mosman products who came out on top of our pathway program starting once in our Winter Program or came through Linda’s junior squad.

REPRESENTATIVES

Rob Black has won three U23 world championship medals in three years and dared to dream to get into the NTC this year. After gruelling trials he got accepted and joined the challenging, but rewarding training environment at the NTC in Canberra. Rowing along the Nation’s best oarsmen, the skills and lessons he learnt at MRC and his resilience and hard work earned him a seat in the National Men’s Eight. He won a fantastic Silver Medal behind Germany at the World Championships and let’s not forget the 99th Kings Cup, which he stroked to a win!

Sean Murphy went the other way. He chose to drop back from the NTC to focus on studies and the U23 single. He was on a trajectory through the season. He started at the back of the field, worked his way through, finishing third at Nationals and got just selected to represent Australia for the 4th time. Sean rowed the U23 Lightweight single and finished in the Senior A A Final at the World Cup in Lucerne against the world’s top lightweights and won his first world Championship Medal in Poznan. Sean was also part of the NSW Penrith Cup crew which won the cup for the Blues after 20 odd years. Both Rob and Sean provided a detailed report of their respective seasons and we are immensely proud of them.

After months of recovery and rehab work at the AIS Tom Schramko went from the NTC to be coached by Nick Garratt at ACTAS. The team worked carefully to race at Nationals and later seek selection potentially in the U23 single. The Nationals was a tremendous comeback, by winning Gold. Unfortunately, Tom’s health didn’t allow him to continue this season.

SQUADS

At Mosman we have 53 squad members from Juniors, Development to HP. 19 are female and 34 male athletes . The overall numbers stayed the same from last year with the quality improving.

This year we were fortunate enough to boat the first all Mosman U21 M8+ at State Championship and also in the Club Eight Division at Nationals, where we won a Bronze medal. The squad is very young, and crews were enhanced by U19 rowers, which shows our skinny talent base, but also great prospect in years to come. The group also broke out in small and medium boats, the most encouraging wins were the U19 and U21 State Title with the same U19 crew.

At Nationals we won silver medals in the U19 Four, Quad – bronze in the U21 Coxed four and Quad as well as Bronze in the Club Eight and a Gold Medal in the all Mosman Y10 School Boy Eight rowing for St Augustine’s.

Linda Read has been ramping up the efforts in the Junior Group. She runs a young squad on a weekly basis, but also initiated talent programs such as the Winter Clinics with 20 kids and a two-term program with the Cammeraygal High School. She has a particular focus on recruiting young girls and doing a relentless job introducing kids to rowing and Mosman Rowing Club.

US ATHLETES

We have a few Mosman rowers who are studying and rowing abroad and had successful domestic seasons. Most rowed with us during their winter break, when back at the sheds: Louis Hugh-Jones (Berkeley) , Grace Galloway (Yale), Callum and Luke Rossi (Brown), Will Taylor (Columbia), Ross Jarvis, Dom Glover (Harvard) and Robin Molen-Grigull (Yale).

EQUIPMENT

We saw a couple of significant improvements on the equipment front. A designated erg (RP3) training area allows for quality training and advanced technique acquisition.

We have acquired a used Empacher Eight and were able to enhance the Club Fleet with a LW Filippi Eight boat to support growth in the recreational area of the Club.

After Sean’s fourth year on the National Team, we have purchased a suitable single for him. He has been supported by Steve Luker over all those years who provided his private single to Sean!

To support our growth in the youth area we are also acquiring two pairs and a single for small boat proficiency and selections in underaged teams.

It wouldn’t have been possible without pragmatic collaboration between the Committee and coaches as well as the generous support of a few individual members who made the purchases possible!

PATHWAY PROGRAM

As a recognised high-performance centre, we are receiving funds based on set KPIs. We have met or exceeded in the categories: School to Club conversion, NSW Pathway 8+ participation (6 out of 8 were St Aug/MRC boys), Winter Program, Coaches on National Team and Medals in U23.

Compared to other Clubs we fell short in number of U21 and U19 National Team members, which was expected, but needs improvement over the next two years.

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CHALLENGES

Although we are progressing on many fronts, we are facing a couple of challenges:

Finding, training and keeping talent remains the biggest challenge. One challenge is the competition with other sports. Others are university Clubs as rowers move from school to university and the US pathway. Many other clubs follow a pure acquisition strategy with little or no junior development. Mosman has a unique position on the North Shore and our focus is on ‘build our own” talent, which is labour intensive.

Daily Training Environment – In a shared environment with recreational and school activities during prime training times, it becomes a challenge and in some weeks impossible to get the quantity and quality of training done at Mosman, which is required certainly from an U23 level upwards. This is due to the amount of rowing and speed boat traffic and coaching resources available. Afternoon training has been significantly improved with Ryan Barraclough as S&C coach.

High Performance Rowing – Committee interlock – Although we are a high performance centre with three NCAS level 3 accredited coaches, the majority of Committee members, their background and mindset is recreational rowing. This caters for about three quarters of our membership well, but it underrepresents the complex needs of a modern pathway club and about 53 of our young members. It has been addressed with the formation of a rowing sub-committee but needs attention for the new season and the formation of the new Committee.

Coaching Resources – since our coaching restructure two years ago, we reduced the coaching resources from 3 FTE to 1.5FTE, yet “The Club” is expecting the same or greater squad numbers and at the same time more rigorous Pathway KPIs must be met. Expectations need to be set what squad numbers we can manage with our resources or increase those.

COACHES

Rowing is a coach-driven sport and we are lucky to have had an experienced core coaches team at MRC, with Judith Ungemach (Junior Men and Women Development/HP), Linda Read (Novices and Junior Men and Women), Rocky Gordon (Masters and Development/HP), Alex van Helden (Junior Coaching) supported by Winter Program coaches Steve Luker and S&C Coach Ryan Barraclough.

It has been a tremendous effort by the entire coaches team, parents and the MRC Committee this season through a year of growth and delivering medals at States and Nationals as well as a Silver and Bronze Medal at the World’s Stage.

Particular thanks goes out to Club members Will Liley, Ed Day, Sally Maspero, Guy Morgan, Paul Bartels and Peter Sutton for their support of the coaches and squads in many ways. Also a group of Masters rowers led by Linda Mudronja who provided a ‘Masters Cooking Class’ feeding the troops with help of many others, organising the “Beanie” breakfast to welcome Winter Rowers to the Club and many other helpful initiatives. Another shout out goes to MRC Paula and Luke Murphy, who help with weekly breakfasts and any handyman work and trailer towing which needs to be done…

Matthias Ungemach (Director of Rowing)

DIRECTOR OF ROWING REPORT _CONT’D

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OTHER INCOME

ASF Funds donated specifically for either ‘equipment’, ‘athletes, or ‘capital works’ were $26,600 for the year compared to last year $124,610. There is an overall decrease of ASF funds of -$59,137. The club relies heavily on these donations from club members and non-members to support the club, its athletes and equipment. The club has been able to use these funds over the past year to invest in the purchase of rowing equipment.

ASSETS

Bank account balances have increased $89,422 from $127,537 to $216,959.

The club has retained shares to the value of $59,880. When realised $50,000 will remain with the club with the intended use for building improvements/maintenance to the club building, the balance when sold will go to the Foundation.

NOTE: During the year not reflected in Profit and Loss statement is $74,975 on development boats and $39,128 on general usage boats.

LIABILITIES

Trade Creditors $81,534

The club purchased a new ute this year and the HP liability is $51,455.

ADDITIONAL FINANCIAL NOTES

This year there has been a focus on building the savings account YTY from $67,716 to $118,199 in order to invest in the ‘old club house’ facility for maintenance and repairs. While there is a program by the committee to apply for funding for redevelopment, the focus is on these savings initiatives for immediate maintenance and repairs to the club.

While the club showed a healthy operating profit, this does not take into account an increase in the net cost $137,030 of rowing equipment purchased during the year on the balance sheet.

The Mosman Rowing Club committee has continued to work to improve the overall financial position of the club. The overall operating surplus for the year is $138,915, an increase of $114,058 over the previous year, the cash position has increased by $89,422.

With the establishment of the Mosman Rowing Club Foundation, the committee have transferred the assets for the foundation to that entity. This has contributed to an overall net loss of -$863,453. Possibly a club record.

With the club’s success at state and national level, the coaches have been able to achieve all the KPI’s set by Rowing Australia to achieve 100% funding. This is also due to the diligent work and commitment of the Director of Rowing, this funding was $64,840.85. This is a significant and not widely understood contribution to the financial support of the development program and in turn provides the ability to maintain the growing development program. This is a high priority and a focus for the club to maintain this funding.

The club has continued to grow the membership levels for the year, with an increase of $17,935, although other rowing

income (Learn to Row and Winter Program) decreased by -$26,430. Other rowing income remains a focus for the club and while Learn to Row (LTR) was down, there was an increasing interest in the program towards the end of the financial year. The LTR program has been in part impacted by the lack of volunteer coaches, however overall numbers of participants is increasing.

INCOME

Overall MRC income increased by $24,919 (from $489,316 to $514,235).

1. Increases in school income (up by $7,856) and memberships (up by $17,955) were offset by the decline in rowing income (-$26,349). Rowing income being a variable remains a focus. Winter Program and Winter clinics this year showed a small decline with the focus on fewer rowers and more intense coaching. The opportunity for growth in rowing income remains with a strong LTR program.

2. The club has achieved its KPI’s set by NSWIS to be eligible for 100% of pathway assistance program. This was $64,840.

3. Other revenue increased $15,119 through venue hire ($14,190) from a contribution from Sailing Australia for gym usage and fundraising ($10,206) through a most popular and successful event at Skiffies during the year.

4. Rent from the schools - Redlands, Queenwood, Loreto Kirribilli, St Augustine’s and North Sydney Girls - increased as expected and an overall increase on last year across all schools of $7,865. North Sydney Girls left the club at the end of the year.

EXPENDITURE

Overall expenditure reduced year on year by $89,138, from $464,458 to $375,320. $83, 668 of the expense reduction was from employment costs $122,493 to $38,825 from the previous FY restructure. Building expenses overall showed a modest decrease during the year of -$3,466. Maintenance has increased, the Club buildings by $14,308 in part due to the work completed on the gym floor early in the FY, as well as guttering on the old club. Contract coaching has increased from $155,504 to $168,600.

TREASURER’S REPORT

ATHLETE INSIGHT - SEAN MURPHY

MOSMAN ROWING CLUB ANNUAL REPORT 2018

I HAD A MEETING WITH MATTHIAS AT THE BEGINNING OF MY 2018 SEASON.

I had just returned from the NTC and we agreed that the NTC training program would not be a sustainable option for me. We decided my best chance at qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics would be to train at Mosman and focus on my final year of under 23’s. The goal was to perform at the Under 23 World Champs. This meant sacrificing potential results throughout the domestic season, at state champs and nationals, in order to be in my peak form later in the year.

I began my 2018 campaign rebuilding my base fitness, with long steady state rows, and ton of hours on the bike. Without a taper for any regattas, racing at the small boats, state champs and nationals was a mental challenge, focussing on the execution of my race plan and maintaining technique up to the final stroke of the race.

Matthias and I had periodised my program perfectly, to just scrape under the qualifying time by 0.13 seconds at the selection regatta, and I was announced as the lightweight men’s single scull for the under 23 World champs in Poznan, Poland.

3 months later, Matthias and I arrived in Lucerne, Switzerland for the World Cup III regatta. This was the first year Australia had sent their entire under 23 team to race at this senior regatta and provided a great opportunity to gain valuable international racing experience, to perfect my race plan, and to challenge some big names in the sport.

My heat was a shock. Being my first international race in the single I went out fast, expecting to struggle to keep up with the pace of the more senior athletes. Passing through the 500m mark under world record pace with 2 lengths up on the rest of the field. I realised I had made a very big mistake. Hitting the lactic wall only moments later, with the field rowing through me, I was relegated to the repechage that afternoon. Although this was not an ideal performance, this race gave me the confidence that I had the top end speed required. I just had to be smart and use it at the right time. Learning from my mistakes, I qualified for the semi-finals later that afternoon. Going into the semi-final I was instructed by Matthias to race this as though it was the A final of the 23 World Champs, to leave nothing in the tank and not think about racing the A or B final that afternoon. I did exactly that. Holding off the Kiwi sculler James Lassche, who placed 5th at the Rio Olympics, to steal from him the final spot in the A final. Although I was exhausted both mentally and physically for the A final, I gave it my best and loved racing against the best in the world.

After a short training camp in Italy, which involved lots of gelato and pizza, we arrived at Lake Malta in Poznan, Poland for the World Champs. The heat and quarterfinals went exactly to plan, going out of the blocks fast to establish my dominance early in the regatta. The night before the semi-final, Matthias and I looked at the lane draw and analysed the race profiles of my competitors. We knew it was going to be tough, with the current world champion and world best time holder, Uncas Batista, racing. In the race as well was the Greek sculler who had the fastest final 500m of the field and the Tunisian sculler who placed 5th in 2017 and raced in the single at the Rio Olympics. The race was going to be close, so we changed my race plan to move ahead at the 900m, to get out of trouble early and not leave the race down to a sprint. Winning the semi-final, I was in the centre lane for the A final.

Being my first ever A final at a World Championships, the focus was on the process and not the outcome. I kept it internal, concentrating on my race plan. It wasn’t until the final 500m that I looked out and realised I was in a medal position and all I had to do was hold on. Trying not to catch a crab in the heavy tail wind and white capping water, I crossed the line with an immense sense of relief, winning my first international medal. It was a bronze medal, and I was definitely the happiest athlete on the podium.

Looking back on this season, I won my first international medal and improved my personal best time in the single, from 7:08 at state champs to 6:56 in the A final. This is only a small stepping stone in my Olympic campaign. I look forward to continue working hard and improving under the wealth of experience and dedication of Matthias and Judith at Mosman Rowing Club.

Sean M

MOSMAN ROWING CLUB ANNUAL REPORT 2018

THIS YEAR SAW THE AUSTRALIAN SENIOR MEN’S VIII SECURE A SILVER MEDAL AT THE WORLD ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS, IN PLOVDIV, BULGARIA.

The whole process began back in November when the Men’s National Training Centre grew from 15 to 25 athletes with the inclusion of 8 other athletes from around the country and myself. The days of training were long and tiresome, with it not being uncommon to row 50+km on some of our bigger days. In other words – we were fit.

Trials for the VIII were held out at Penrith in February just after the NSW State Championships. Starting with a 2km erg the benchmark for all athletes wanting to make the team was to post a score sub 6:00. Ian had prepared us all really well for this round of trials and as a result I posted an 8 second PB from 6:06 to 5:58, I had made it – just. Over the following week we raced pairs, fours and eights to work out who moved which boats the best. With the four being the priority boat and having the reigning world champions from 2017 in our squad we knew that the VIII would then be the boat to target. Three different combinations were put together and raced throughout the week all of them going faster than the 95% benchmark prognostic. We knew we were onto something at that point.

The crew selected on the day included Angus Moore (bow), Simon Keenan, Liam Donald, Tim Masters, Nick Purnell, Josh Booth, Rob Black, and Kendall Brodie who made Australian rowing history becoming the first woman to cox a men’s crew. The training in Canberra was very productive, each day learning something new about how to make the boat go faster as well as what made the rest of our crewmates tick (usually conducted on a Saturday evening at the local watering hole, Hopscotch). After 10 weeks it was time to head to Europe for the World Cup racing season. After a brief acclimatisation block at the European Training Centre in Varese, Italy, we went to the 2nd World Cup in Linz, Austria.

Testing out the poor weather racing protocol for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, the heats were conducted in time trial formation. With only the winners of each heat progressing straight to the final we knew we would be up against the wall having drawn the reigning World Champions Germany. Having gone out quite hard in our heat we settled into one of the better midrace rhythms we had all season and were able to keep on top of the choppy, gusty water and nudge out Germany for the automatic qualifying spot for the final in Sunday. The Germans being the Germans, regained composure and put on a clinic in the final. We managed 5th just .06 in front of the Italians. Disappointed with the result but happy with some aspects of the whole regatta, we had motivation and confidence for the hard training block to come back in Varese before the Henley Royal Regatta and the third World Cup in Lucerne, Switzerland.

With half the crew selected in the VIII for HRR, Nick Purnell, Simon Keenan, Liam Donald and I, were left in Varese in what we called the ‘Remedial Four’. Having never been to HRR I would have loved to have been in the eight that ultimately won the Grand Challenge Cup in record time, however physiologically I think the four of us made a lot of gains while the others were at Henley so it wasn’t all bad. Maybe next year they might send a four as well – who knows? The Monday after Henley we met the rest of the team in Lucerne ready for the 3rd world Cup in just under a week’s time.

Initially it took a few sessions to get the remaining guys used to the flat water of the Rotsee as opposed to the rough and washy Thames. Each paddle we had we were getting more and more together and 2 days before the heat we did a practice first 1250m piece. We were on world record pace for this piece and the likes of Booth and Purnell both stated that they have never before been in an VIII that has gone that fast– good things to come. Again we drew the Germans in the heat. We knew that their strengths were the 3rd – 5th 250’s. They crept out to a length lead and sat there for the remainder of the race. As it was top 2 through and third was some way back we comfortably finished the race qualifying for the A final on Sunday. The warm up for the Final was the best warm up we had done as a crew, we were ready to go out hard and fast and try to beat the Germans at their own game. And it worked for the first 1500m but what a shame, the Germans kept on coming and snatched the lead with 500m to go. From then on we were the ones playing catch up eventually being defeated by .14 of a second. Not bad considering the result we had back in Linz.

That marked the end of our World Cup tour and we were back to Australia and Canberra for a week before heading up to Rockhampton for a month long training camp on the Fitzroy. The week in Canberra had the coldest conditions I had ever rowed in dropping to minus 7 degrees on one of the days. The warmth and sunshine of Rockhampton couldn’t have come sooner. For the month we were up there the local Rockhampton rowing community looked us after superbly. The catering service was particularly good with most of the boys putting on a bit of extra weight, much to Ian Wright’s horror. The training up there was hard, with both a lot of kilometres and a lot of intensity. The theory behind it was to hurt now so that come race time it doesn’t hurt…as much. After our month of training on the Fitzroy it was time to head back to Varese for the finishing touches to our preparation and then on to the World Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

We arrived in Plovdiv five days before the first race of the regatta. Given that there were only a limited number of entries for the Men’s VIII, our racing wouldn’t start until the following Wednesday. This was a full week from the day we arrived meaning we would have to conduct our final few days of training on the washy course with lots of traffic. This regatta we managed to miss the Germans in the draw of the heats but pulled the US instead. Having not raced them at all this season they were an unknown quantity and therefore very dangerous. The race itself was fast and furious right from the start with no real time to settle into a mid race rhythm like we planned. With the top two places progressing we were stuck in a tight tussle the whole way with the Americans out the front of the field ahead of the British, Canadians and the Kiwis. Exchanging the lead a number of times throughout the race the Americans edged in front at the post by just .05. This race would go down to be the fastest an Australian Men’s VIII had ever gone in a time of 5:19.25 something that the whole crew were very proud of getting off the water.

Having progressed straight through to the final we then had another 4 day wait before we would be back on the start line again. Part of the ‘Game’ of racing the VIII at events such as the World Championships is being able to switch on just as well as being able to switch off between training sessions and races. We managed to do this by taking walks through the town, watching movies and playing cards. It was a long 4 days. Eventually Sunday arrived and due to some unfair racing earlier in the week with lane 6 providing an unfair advantage the lanes were redrawn with the winners of the two heats The US and Germany given lanes 6 and 5 respectively. We were in lane 4 the Italians in lane 3 and the British and Romanians in lanes 2 and 1. This was probably one of the hottest fields I have ever raced in, and anyone on their best day could have won. The Germans, as always cool headed and business like set to work in the 3rd 500 and struck a commanding lead. We on the other started to drop back, so much so that we were a length down on the British and the Americans at the 1250m mark and needed to do something fast. Little by little we started winding for the line throwing everything that we had at every stroke. The Americans drew level with 250m to go with the British still half a length up in the Silver medal position. Again the rate stepped up and the British begin to fall over. The final margin between 2nd and 4th was .2 of a second. We had claimed silver over the British by .03 and achieved the best result for the Australian Men’s VIII since 2005, something to be very proud of. Having started preparations already for the 2019 season and the Olympic Qualification Regatta. I continually look back on the season that was with all it success and learnings and in the words of my 3 time U23 World Championship coach Antonio Maurogiovanni I’m “Happy but not satisfied”.

Rob B

ATHLETE INSIGHT - ROB BLACK - AUST MEN’S VIII

A 1x ESTANY DE BANYOLES ExcellentA 1x HANN RIVER ExcellentA 1x ILE NOTRE-DAME ExcellentA 1x LAGO DI ALBANO ExcellentA 1x LAGO RODRIGO DI FRE ExcellentA 1x LAKE CASITAS ExcellentA 1x LAKE LANIER ExcellentA 1x LAKE WENDOUREE ExcellentA 1x LAKE XOCHIMILCO ExcellentA 1x PIP ExcellentA 1x SEA FOREST WATERWAY ExcellentA 1x SYKES ExcellentA 1x SYKES ExcellentA 1x SYKES ExcellentA 1x TOM SCHRAMKO ExcellentA 1x TRACKER ExcellentA 1x VIRGINIA LEE ExcellentA 2x- LIZ BURROWS NewA 2x/2- BOB SHIRLAW ExcellentA 2x/2- DAN NOONAN ExcellentA 2x/2- GRANDSTAND DAN ExcellentA 2x/2- SCOTT & WEIGHTMAN ExcellentA 2x/2- SYKES ‘AUS’ STICKER ExcellentA 4x/- AMY CLAY ExcellentA 4x/- JUDITH UNGEMACH ExcellentA 4x/- ROB BLACK NewA 4x/- THE GARDNERS ExcellentA 4x/- WINTECH NewA 8+ BRUCE EVANS ExcellentA 8+ EMPACHER ExcellentA 8+ WILL LILEY ExcellentB 1x BANTRY BAY GoodB 1x BEAUTY POINT GoodB 1x CONGO GoodB 1x DAVIDSON PARK GoodB 1x ENDURANCE GoodB 1x JAXON RUDDOCK GoodB 1x JRF FairB 1x LINDA READ FairB 1x PEARL BAY GoodB 1x ROSEVILLE BRIDGE GoodB 1x STEVE MORTON GoodB 1x SURPRISE II ExcellentB 1x THE WIRES GoodB 1x TUNKS PARK GoodB 2x/2- TOM LAURICH ExcellentB 2x/2- ZOE UPHILL ExcellentB 4x/- JOHN DOLLISON Good

C 1x $$$ FairC 1x ANGUS WILLIAMS GoodC 1x ANNE TAYLOR FairC 1x GLENDA KIRKBY FairC 1x JIM BATTERSBY 2 FairC 1x KILLARNEY 2 FairC 1x MALEWI FairC 1x R EDWARDS GoodC 1x SEAFORTH BLUFF GoodC 1x SINGLE MALT GoodC 1x STEPHEN COOPER GoodC 1x SUGARLOAF GoodC 1x WEIRDO GoodC 2- JAMES CHAPMAN GoodC 2- NICK GARRATT ExcellentC 2- RICK GOODRICH GoodC 2- TONY BLAY GoodC 2x JAMES TAYLOR FairC 2x MARK CAMPBELL GoodC 2x PETER HARDCASTLE GoodC 2x/- GEN & JESS ExcellentC 2x/2- ART BROWN GoodC 2x/2- JAMES CHAPMAN GoodC 2x/2- THE SHERRO ExcellentC 4-/x GABRIELLE PRITCHARD II ExcellentC 4-/x TED BROMLEY GoodC 4x/- BILL JENNER GoodC 4x/- SARAH HILL ExcellentC 4x/- STEVE GORDON ExcellentC 4x/4- STEPHEN EVANS OAM ExcellentC 8+ JO BURNAND ExcellentC 8+ PETER HARDCASTLE ExcellentC 8+ ROBERT CONNOR DAWES ExcellentD A1x MARK BARRAND ExcellentD A1x STEPHEN MORTON ExcellentD A1x LIBBY VANDERHEIDE GoodD 1x ALEX D FairD 1x ANGELA BROMLEY PoorD 1x STEVE WILLIAMS GoodD 2x BRYAN WEIR FairD 2x ROBERT EVANS GoodD 4x/- AUSQUAD GoodD 4x/- CROWLEY 2 GoodD 4x/- JANUSZ HOOKER ExcellentD 4x+ INDEFATIGABLE GoodD 4x MOSBELLE FairD 8+ IGNATIAN FairD 8+ TERRY O’HANLON Good

FLEET REPORTFLEET TYPE NAME CONDITION FLEET TYPE NAME CONDITION

2018 TROPHY WINNERS

MOST SUCCESSFUL OARSMAN

ROB BLACK

MOST SUCCESSFUL SCULLER

SEAN MURPHY

CLUB’S MOST OUTSTANDING ROWER

ROB BLACK

MOST IMPROVED OARSMAN

MITCH BLACKMORE-CRAM

MOST IMPROVED YOUTH OARSMAN

TORBEN UNGEMACH

CLUB’S TOP POINT SCORER

JENNY WILSON

MOST OUTSTANDING U23 ROWER

SEAN MURPHY

MOST IMPROVED MASTER

HELENKA BACULAKOVA

TOP MASTERS POINT SCORER

DASHER MAY

MOST SUCCESSFUL COACH

MATTHIAS UNGEMACH

SERVICES TO THE CLUB

JIM ARONEY

CLUBMANSHIP

HELENKA BACULAKOVA

MOSMAN ROWING CLUB ANNUAL REPORT 2018

LIFE MEMBERSJim BATTERSBYTony BLAYMark CAMPBELLAmy CLAYAndrew COXMichael CROWLEYJohn DOLLISONSteve EVANSNick GARRATTSteve GORDON

Peter HARDCASTLEJanusz HOOKERBill JENNERGraham JONESVirginia LEEMichael MORGANCraig MULLERDan NOONANTerry O’HANLONGraeme PRESTON

John PUNSHONLinda READRob SCOTTRobert SHIRLAWDavid SKIDMOREAnne TAYLORJames TAYLORBryan WEIRMark WILLIAMS

FULL MEMBERSKatherine ALEXANDER Miguel ARAUJOJames ARONEYHelena BACULAKOVAMark BARRANDPaul BARTELSJustine BATTERSBYBruce BEGBIEJames BEZERMarc BINDNERNathan BIRCHPedro BRANDAO TEIXEIRAKerry BRASLINLiz BURROWSRichard CAREYMark CONNAGHANSimon COOK Christopher DAYEd DAYMichael DIAMONDGraeme DONALDGeorge (Robert) DRURYLachlan EVANSMaureen FARROWHarry FINEWarwick FISHERJames FOSTER Kristane FOXTONPhilip GRAHAM

John HARDYChristopher HEATHCOTESarah HILLVirginia HILLAndrew HOURIGANRebekah HOURIGANWilliam (Bill) HOWARD Merrick HOWESTiffany HUTCHESONBernadette KERRKim LAWRYMartina LEONARDMark LEWARNEWilliam LILEYSaxon LYNEHugh MACDONALDSally MASPERODavid MATHEWSJohn MAYJoel McINNES Wendy MILLERGuy MORGANStephen MORTONLinda MUDRONJATorq MURRAYJohn MYBURGHDean NEALLawrence NETHERYJohn NEWCOMB

Robert NEWLINDSMichael NORTH ASHRichard PARRY Barney POTTSSarah QUINNTrent ROGERSKelly Christine ROSS Michael ROWLAND SMITHJaxon RUDDOCK Georgina SANDERSONTim SHERIDANMargaret SMALLPeter SPASOJEVICCatherine STARLINGJohn STRUIKEvan STURROCKPeter SUTTONPhilip TITTERTONJane TRIBEAlex VAN HELDENLibby VANDERHEIDEPetra VANWOENSELLucy WALCZAKDavid WEARJenny WILSONDieuwke WINTERTim WIRTHHouda YOUNAN

JUNIOR / DEVELOPMENT / TERTIARY / SQUADRobert BLACKChynna BLAKEMANPeter BRONGOJustin BROWNGrace BURKEPatrick BURKEMax COLLIERElla CONNAGHANBronte CRAMMitchell CRAMFelix DADDOOscar DAVISWilliam DELANEYBen DI STASOEleanor DISNEY-HOGGHamish EVANSLily EVANSEleanor FOGARTY

Grace GALLOWAYJeremy GATEGOODTom GERRANSFrederica GIBBESKatie HEALYElizabeth HOLTHEUERConnor HOPKINS Maddi HOWARD Charlotte HUNTLEYAngus LAIRDLucy LAKE Flynn LAUGHTONEvan LLOYDShannon LOWE-GRIFFITHSIsabella MARRABLELucy MASONStuart MCDONALDPeggy MCKENZIE

Mungo MURPHYSean MURPHYBeau NICHOLAS Aria PAPENikolas PENDERAlan PERRYThomas PFAFFLINLukas ROBINSONDaniel SAMUSTom SCHRAMKOOscar ST PIERREOliver THOMASGrace UNDERHILLBjarne UNGEMACHTorben UNGEMACHFred WARBURTONWilliam WULFF

COACHESSteve GORDONAlex van HELDEN

Kieran KOBELKELinda READ

Judith UNGEMACHMatthias UNGEMACH

ASSOCIATE MEMBERSLaurence SAVILLE

COXWAINSGabby ANGUSMeaghan BARRDarcy BENNETTEmily BRUNNER

Jo BURNARDMackenzie COOKEZara DWYERRebecca HARRISON

Claire JANSENHarry MC EVOYLaura MONKNatalie PERRY

RECREATIONAL Jan ALEXANDERKaren ARONEYPaul BURKE Nick CERNEAZLynette COOPERDoreen DAVIDSteven DOANAnita FLETCHERXiaofeng GUMarcus HEBBLETHWAITE

Martin JAMIESONLesley KERNAGHANSuzanne LEMLINLisa MARSHALLPeter MARTINKirsty MC DONALDPeter MCKELVEYPatrick MICHELTaine MOUFARRIGELuke MURPHY

Damian O’MEARALynne PHILLIPSStephanie POWLINGLois REESDamian RIGNEYDanielle ROBERTSONKohar SAKAIANSam SPENCERJonathan TERRYSuzanne VOSS

MEMBERSHIP 2017-2018

INDEX

Statement by Members of the Management Committee

Profit & Loss Statement

Balance Sheet

Notes to the Financial Accounts

Auditor’s Report

Auditor’s Independence Declaration

MOSMAN ROWING CLUB INCORPORATED FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2018

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